Vicki Blei, program host, invited Susan Walker Hemm, Marketing and Development Coordinator for Hospice of Miami County, as our guest speaker at the May 14 West Milton Rotary Club meeting. Susan, a Milton-Union graduate, has been with Hospice of Miami County for five years. One of her major points of her presentation was to inform everyone that [...]
Cliff Poling, program host, provided his own program with his wife, Katie, at the April 23 West Milton Rotary Club. Cliff and Katie recently traveled to Bangladesh to visit their daughter, Andrea, who is working in the capital city of Dhaka. Andrea is an Assistant Project Director for Chemonics International, located in Washington D.C. [...]
Larry Dehus, program host, provided his own program at the April 16 West Milton Rotary Club. Larry, the Paul Harris Fellows Chairperson, shared a short history of the Rotary International Foundation, including the Paul Harris Fellows and some of the major projects accomplished through the foundation. Larry also shared some other related information to the club members before conducting [...]
Randy Yoakum, program host, invited his niece, April McDivitt, as the guest speaker at the April 2 West Milton Rotary Club. McDivitt, was the 1999 Indiana Miss Basketball (an award given to the state’s top basketball player) while playing at Connersville High School. She then played under the legendary Coach Pat Summit at the University of Tennessee, where [...]
Luke Kahlig, program host, provided his own program at the March 26 West Milton Rotary Club. Kahlig, a basketball fan and enthusiast, who has sons playing basketball at the University of Findlay and at Fort Recovery High School, presented to his fellow Rotarians a brief history of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. He covered a variety of statistics, [...]
Allen Smith, program host, invited Linda Raterman, the information Public Relations Specialist with the Miami Soil and Water Conservation District since 2000, as the as our guest speaker at the March 19 West Milton Rotary Club meeting and annual Farmers’ Day. Linda shared with the farmers and Rotarians about the many services the conservation district provides many in Miami [...]
Garry Kimpell, program host, invited Cathy Stelzer-Petersen, currently the Montgomery County Communications Director, as the as our guest speaker at the March 12 West Milton Rotary Club meeting. Cathy was a former WHIO news reporter and anchor news producer. She told the Rotarians about many of her experiences while serving as the Clark County correspondent. She also gave suggestions [...]
Dan Neitzke, program host, organized the annual Rotary Four Way Speech Contest with the help of Mrs. Linda Netzley, Language Arts teacher at Milton-Union High School, during the February 27 West Milton Rotary Club meeting. Five excellent speeches were made to the Rotarians on subjects that related to the Rotary 4 Way Test. Noah Barth [...]
By Alex Yount Is it the truth? Is it beneficial to all concerned? Does it build goodwill and better friendship? Is it fair? These are the four pillars of the RotaryFour-Way Test that students must build the foundation of their speeches upon for the annual Rotary Speech Contest. This year’s contestants were well prepared [...]
Ginny Rammel, program host, invited one of the high school teachers, Mrs. Amy Todd, to provide the program at the February 13 West Milton Rotary Club meeting. Amy, in her fifteenth year as an Intervention Specialist, gave a presentation on the M.A.P. (Milton Alternative Program) identified as such because she meets with each student individually to map out [...]
